UK farming organizations are urging the EU Commission to extend two derogations for organic pigs and poultry that are due to expire at the end of this year.
The UK government’s 2% biofuel crop cap proposal would be disastrous for bioethanol producers, farmers and the feed sector, says head of government affairs at Vivergo Fuels.
Animal feed production for the UK was up 6.4% for poultry and 1.4% for cattle and calves but down 5.3% for pigs in December 2016 compared to same month a year earlier.
An EU divorce without single market access or customs union membership poses a huge threat to the UK food and agriculture industries, says agribusiness trade group.
There is limited data available on antibiotic resistance strains of pathogenic bacteria in meat products in the UK, says a campaigner seeking curbs to antibiotic usage in farmed animals.
And the UK livestock sector, as some experts had previously suggested, will not become more self-sufficient due to the UK opting to leave the EU - that was an opinion expressed in strong terms by pollsters in our survey on the likely fallout for the feed...
UK feed and agribusiness group, Wynnstay, in releasing its half year results yesterday, said it does not expect last week’s EU referendum vote to have an immediate impact on the sector.
There is growing momentum behind an attempt to reshape a standard for responsible sourcing (RS) of fish meal and fish oil so that it covers worker safety, following recent news reports on labor and human rights abuses on fishing vessels supplying global...
A tie-up between UK animal health and nutrition firms, academics and tech experts will see a wealth of knowledge in digital technologies, pig nutrition and disease being applied to help producers improve the health of their pig herd and production efficiency,...
Greater availability, combined with lower open market prices for oats and a historically small wheat crop, has seen a hike in the use of oats in animal feed in the UK in recent months.